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}}{{Infobox person | name = Timothy West | honorific_suffix = CBE | image = Timothy West in 2010.JPG | caption = West at the Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames, 15 February 2010 | birth_name = Timothy Lancaster West | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1934|10|20}} | birth_place = Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1956 - present | other names = Tim | education = The John Lyon School Bristol Grammar School | alma_mater = Regent Street Polytechnic | spouse = {{marriage|Jacqueline Boyer |1956|1961|end=div}} {{marriage|Prunella Scales |1963}} | parents = Lockwood West Olive Carleton-Crowe | children = 3, Juliet, Samuel and Joseph }} Timothy Lancaster West,[1] CBE (born 20 October 1934) is an English film, stage and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business. As well as many classical theatre performances, he has appeared frequently on television, including spells in both Coronation Street as Eric Babbage and Stan Carter in EastEnders, and also in Not Going Out, as the original Geoffrey Adams. He is married to the actress Prunella Scales; since 2014 they have been seen travelling together on British and overseas canals in the Channel 4 series Great Canal Journeys. Early life and educationWest was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, the only son of Olive (née Carleton-Crowe) and actor Lockwood West (1905-1989).[1] He was educated at the John Lyon School, Harrow on the Hill, at Bristol Grammar School,[2] where he was a classmate of Julian Glover, and at Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster).[3] He has a sister named Patricia who is 5 years younger than himself. CareerWest worked as an office furniture salesman and as a recording technician, before becoming an assistant stage manager at the Wimbledon Theatre in 1956.[4] In 1959, he wrote and produced a short audio play, This Gun That I Have in My Right Hand Is Loaded, satirising typical mistakes of radio drama, including over-explanatory dialogue and misuse of sound cues.[5][6] StageWest played repertory seasons in Newquay, Hull, Northampton, Worthing and Salisbury before making his London debut at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1959 in the farce Caught Napping. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for three seasons: the 1962 Arts Theatre Experimental season (Nil Carborundum and Afore Night Come), the 1964 'Dirty Plays' season (Victor, the premiere production of Marat/Sade and the revival of Afore Night Come) and the 1965 season at Stratford and later at the Aldwych Theatre appearing in The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, The Jew of Malta, Love's Labour's Lost and Peter Hall's production of The Government Inspector, in a company which included Paul Scofield, Eric Porter, Janet Suzman, Paul Rogers, Ian Richardson, Glenda Jackson and Peter McEnery.[7] West has played Macbeth twice, Uncle Vanya twice, Solness in The Master Builder twice and King Lear four times: in 1971 (aged 36) for Prospect Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Festival; on a worldwide tour in 1991 in Dublin for Second Age; in 2003 for English Touring Theatre, on tour in the UK and at the Old Vic; and in 2016 at the Bristol Old Vic. ScreenHaving spent years as a familiar face who never quite became a household name, West's big break came with the major television series, Edward the Seventh (1975), in which he played the title role from the age of twenty-three until the King's death;[8] his real-life sons, Samuel and Joseph, played the sons of King Edward VII as children. Other screen appearances have included Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), Masada (1981), Cry Freedom (1987) and Luc Besson's The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). In Richard Eyre's Iris (2001) he plays Maurice and his son Samuel West plays Maurice as a young man. West starred as patriarch Bradley Hardacre in Granada TV's satirical Northern super-soap Brass over three seasons (1982–1990). West appeared in the series Miss Marple in 1985 (in A Pocket Full of Rye as the notorious Rex Fortescue), and made a memorable appearance as Professor Furie in A Very Peculiar Practice in 1986. In 1997, he played Gloucester in the BBC television production of King Lear, with Ian Holm as Lear. From 2001 to 2003, he played the grumpy and frequently volatile Andrew in the BBC drama series Bedtime. At Christmas 2007, he joined Not Going Out as Geoffrey Adams. He reprised this role in two episodes of series three; Geoffrey Whitehead played the role in later seasons. In 2011, he appeared alongside John Simm and Jim Broadbent in BBC series Exile, written by BAFTA-winning Danny Brocklehurst. In February 2013, West joined the cast of ITV soap Coronation Street, playing Eric Babbage.[9] He joined the cast of EastEnders in 2013, playing Stan Carter from January 2014.[10] He filmed his final scenes for EastEnders in February 2015. DirectingHe was Artistic Director of the Forum Theatre, Billingham in 1973,[11] where he directed We Bombed in New Haven by Joseph Heller, The Oz Obscenity Trial by David Livingstone and The National Health by Peter Nichols. He was co-artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre from 1980–81,[12] where he directed Trelawny of the 'Wells' and The Merchant of Venice. He was Director-in-Residence at the University of Western Australia in 1982.{{cn|date=June 2015}} In 2004, he toured Australia with the Carl Rosa Opera Company as Director of the production of H.M.S. Pinafore, also singing the role of Sir Joseph Porter. He was replaced in the singing role by Dennis Olsen for the Perth and Brisbane performances. Personal lifeWest was married to actress Jacqueline Boyer from 1956 to 1961 and has a daughter Juliet. In 1963 he married actress Prunella Scales, with whom he has two sons. One, Samuel West, is an actor of note. Their younger son Joseph (Joe) participated in two episodes of Great Canal Journeys filmed in France, where Joe (a teacher and translator) lives with his French wife and their children. After the broadcast of the French canal episodes, Joe was interviewed in several newspapers. The Guardian crossword setter Biggles referred to West's 50th wedding anniversary in its prize crossword puzzle (number 26,089) on 26 October 2013.[13]West and Scales are patrons of the Lace Market Theatre in Nottingham, The Kings Theatre in Gloucester and of the Conway Hall Sunday Concerts[14] programme, the longest running series of chamber music concerts in Europe. West is an Ambassador of SOS Children's Villages,[15] an international orphan charity providing homes and mothers for orphaned and abandoned children. He currently supports the charity's annual World Orphan Week[16] campaign which takes place each February. West is patron of the National Piers Society,[17] a charity dedicated to preserving and promoting seaside piers. He and Prunella Scales are patrons of Avon Navigation Trust, the charity that runs the River Avon from Stratford-upon-Avon to Tewkesbury. They both support ANT by attending the Stratford River Festival every year.[18] West supports Cancer Research UK.[19] West is a supporter of the Talyllyn Railway, the first preserved railway in the world. He has visited on a number of occasions, the last being the summer of 2015 to attend the Railway's 150th anniversary. He is also a keen supporter of the Inland Waterways Association, and since 2014 has featured together with his wife in the Great Canal Journeys series for Channel 4. West was president of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (being succeeded by Benedict Cumberbatch in January 2018) and is and President of the Society for Theatre Research. He is also patron of London-based drama school, The Associated Studios.[20] HonoursIn 1984, he was appointed CBE for his services to drama. Selected theatre
FilmographySelected television
Film
Selected radioTimothy West was a member of the BBC Radio Drama Repertory Company in 1962[21] and has taken part in over 500 radio broadcasts.[22]
AudiobooksTimothy West has read many unabridged audiobooks, including the complete Barchester Chronicles and the complete Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope, and seven of George MacDonald Fraser's The Flashman Papers books. He has received four AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration.[23] Books
References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/73/Timothy-West.html |title=Timothy West Biography (1934–) |publisher=Filmreference.com |date=20 October 1934 |accessdate=4 July 2012}} 2. ^A Moment Towards the End of the Play, p 14 3. ^Who's Who in the Theatre, 16th edition (1977), {{ISBN|978-0-273-00163-8}}. 4. ^A Moment Towards the End of the Play, p 27 5. ^{{cite web |last1=West |first1=Samuel |title=Fathers and sons |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/mar/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview13 |website=The Guardian |accessdate=16 December 2018}} 6. ^{{cite web |last1=West |first1=Timothy |title=This Gun That I Have in My Right Hand Is Loaded |url=https://clyp.it/fif3lyin |website=Clyp |accessdate=16 December 2018}} 7. ^A Moment Towards the End of the Play, p 88 8. ^A Moment Towards the End of the Play, p 140 9. ^Coronation Street: Timothy West makes his debut, RadioTimes.com, 16 February 2013; accessed 20 June 2015. 10. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-12-12/eastenders-timothy-west-and-annette-badland-to-join-as-danny-dyers-screen-family-expands|title=EastEnders: Timothy West and Annette Badland to join as Danny Dyer's screen family expands|last=Brown|first=David|date=12 December 2013|work=Radio Times|accessdate=20 June 2015}} 11. ^A Moment Towards the End of the Play, p 131 12. ^A Moment Towards the End of the Play, p 194 13. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/prize/26089|title=Prize crossword No 26,089|first1=Set by:|last1=Biggles|first2=Set by:|last2=Biggles|date=26 October 2013|publisher=|via=The Guardian}} 14. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.conwayhallsundayconcerts.org.uk/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2016-02-07 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517223454/http://conwayhallsundayconcerts.org.uk/ |archivedate=17 May 2013 |df=dmy-all }} 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.soschildren.org/|title=SOS Children's Villages United Kingdom - No child should grow up alone|publisher=}} 16. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/donate-help/wow-main.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015190126/http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/donate-help/wow-main.htm|dead-url=yes|archive-date=15 October 2009|title=WOW World Orphan Week|date=15 October 2009|publisher=}} 17. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.piers.org.uk/|title=National Piers Society – Celebrating Seaside Piers|publisher=}} 18. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.avonnavigationtrust.org/|title=Avon Navigation Trust - Home|publisher=}} 19. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders/news/a640794/eastenders-star-timothy-west-backs-prostate-cancer-campaign/|title=EastEnders star Timothy West backs prostate cancer campaign|last=Kilkelly|first=Daniel|date=10 April 2015|work=Digital Spy|publisher=Hearst Magazines|accessdate=10 February 2017}} 20. ^The Associated Studios website: http://www.associatedstudios.co.uk 21. ^A Moment Towards the End of the Play, p 72 22. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lamda.org.uk/development/press/bios/west.htm|title=Press Office - LAMDA|publisher=|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703051923/http://www.lamda.org.uk/development/press/bios/west.htm|archivedate=3 July 2013|df=dmy-all}} 23. ^AudioFile reader page {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20130117075052/http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/dbsearch/showsearch.cfm?title=&author=&reader=Timothy+West&category=&keyword=&isbn=&Submit=View+complete+audiography/ |date=17 January 2013 }} External links
24 : 1934 births|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|English male film actors|English male radio actors|English male stage actors|English male soap opera actors|English male television actors|Living people|London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art|People educated at Bristol Grammar School|People educated at The John Lyon School|People from Bradford|Royal Shakespeare Company members|English male Shakespearean actors|English male singers|English opera singers|Alumni of the Regent Street Polytechnic|People associated with Conway Hall Ethical Society|20th-century English male actors|21st-century English male actors|Labour Party (UK) people|Waterways campaigners of the United Kingdom|Male actors from Yorkshire|Audiobook narrators |
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